The ladies masters athletes from the SMTFA competing at the Flash Athletic Meet in Oct at the Bishan Stadium.

1/14/2015

The Roy Ngerng saga continues

A fire is burning hot. The CPF is a hot potato issue. What about the Roy
Ngerng saga? Immediately after the judgement for legal fee was out,
another controversy took centre stage. Did Roy give up his right to
cross examine, to be cross examined, or did he not? According to Hsien
Loong’s press secretary Chang Li Lin, Roy’s lawyer had confirmed that he
did not want to be cross examined. According to Roy he wanted the cross
examination.

What is puzzling is the thinking of Hsien Loong. What is he thinking,
what is in his mind? Could he be thinking that this is a straight
forward case of libel and he was suing Roy for alleging that he was
corrupt? Period. Let the court decide this civil suit and move on? How
would this tussle affect his stature as the PM of the country?
Can this legal suit be taken in isolation, to be treated so clinically
like a wound, clean it, sanitize it and bandage it up nicely with no
further complication or implication?

The social media is on fire. Some netizens are fuming and drawing all
kinds of conclusions and threatening consequences, as a political issue.
Did Hsien Loong see this coming? I bet so. He must have weighed the
consequences and how it would impact his standing as the PM and how it
would affect the next GE.

This legal case against Roy cannot be simply treated as a private matter
between the two of them. It is political as in involved the PM, and the
people will see it from the political perspective and drag many issues
into it, the CPF being one. Without trying to analyse more in the
thinking of Hsien Loong or his party stalwarts, there must be political
fallouts coming from this case. Perhaps all these have been taken into
account and seen as a price worth paying for, or necessary to take Roy
to court.

How would this end up with Roy now in a mood for a ‘suicidal’ mission, a
do and die no option recourse? The bigger this saga is blown up, the
bigger the implications, and they are unlikely to be positive for both
of them. Would it blow the PAP’s chance in the next GE? This is on the
lips of every politically conscious citizens and political observer.

17 comments:

Anonymous
said...

"Would it blow the PAP’s chance in the next GE?"RB

Not at all, juding from past precedents, with even lagi terok lawsuits by PM Lee, eg against WP Tang Liang Hong in GE 1997 and SDP Aung Juan Soon Chee in GE 2001. And after that PAP went on to win more than 98% seats in GE 1997 and 2001.

And even in the worst of times for daft Sinkies in GE 2011, PAP could still get 60% votes!

So this Roy saga will not affect PAP chances very much, because there are many more new Sinkies since 2011, and as always, the Sinkie opposition is also unlikely to be ready to be govt by next GE.

What is puzzling is the thinking of Hsien Loong. What is he thinking, what is in his mind?--------------

Exactly.There are many rich people who have benefited from PAP's policies.Maybe they are also getting puzzled and worried.

Is it time for another promotion exercise?Is it time to promote a new Senior Minister (guess who?)Is it time to promote a new Prime Minister (guess who?)Is it time to bring in the 2nd Generation of bench warmers until the 3rd Generation Dynasty is ready to take-over?

Is it time for Singaporeans to wake up yet?

Singapore's Sharecropper Economy--------------------------------Sharecropping is a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on the land.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharecropping

Is HDB the biggest landowner in Singapore?Are Singaporeans (HDB flat "owners") the biggest group of tenants in Singapore?

Possibly, but not to the point that it would be a deciding factor in 2016.

>> This is on the lips of every politically conscious citizens and political observer.

Yes, but they do not understand how the voters' minds work. The human consciousness---especially the decision and choice making areas are constantly being "primed" by what's happening in the culture and the environment.

At the end of the day, very few will have genuine empathy for a dissident. In Singapore culture, someone like Roy or Chee or JBJ is just left by the wayside to "cop the shit" with only a few hardcore supporters standing by their side.

Dissidents of the PAP have been sued before and subsequent elections have been won and won again by the PAP.

Bottom line: no one gives a shit about you if you get done attempting to paint any of the PAP top-dogs as "corrupt".

we are not a communistic country and thus a politicial party that cannot take critics should not exist at all. voters have to learn to open the eyes. even your parents will scold you if you do something wrong. thus, there is nothing wrong for people to scold the gov if they do something wrong. it is out of love and concern.

The happenings in the Ang Mo Kio Town Council are outrageous. I am not going to elaborate as the details are everywhere. The similarities be...

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